home  |  contact us  |  site map  |  logon     Standards The real estate industry has established a group whose mission is to standardize the interfaces among the various participants in the real estate transaction. This group, part of the Real Estate Industry Providers Association (REIPA) is, called AARTT, which stands for Alliance for Advanced Real Estate Transaction Technology. Because GURUnet is firmly dedicated to delivering Industry Standard products, our CTO, Paul Hill serves on the Executive Committee, and is also chair of the Technology Workgroup at AARTT. All interfaces to vendors in GURUnet products are implemented using AARTT approved standards where they exist. These standards include RETS, a standard for interfacing to and between MLS systems. RETS was first incorporated in the GURU Broker NETwork, the first generation of the product, in 1998. The latest GURUnet products, such as g4DirectTM and g4EnterpriseTM are implemented using industry standards, JAVA and JSP, and are built on a multi-tier design which isolates the autonomous database servers from any physical or logical direct web connection. These are connected to an isolated LAN using specially selected protocols and addressing structures to provide intrusion protection. In addition, no ports are opened on the web servers that face the Internet except those directly related to web page operation. All software updating and system maintenance are performed from the isolated LAN used by the databases. This isolation of the database is designed to ensure the protection of all customer and broker data relating to transactions. It also protects the broker's personnel, financial and other private or proprietary business data. Copyright © 2005 GURU NETworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://gurunet.net  |  1.800.GURUnet (1.800.487.8638) This is best viewed in Mozilla, Mozilla Foxfire or Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. With your Display set at 1024x768 pixels or larger